FORT MYERS - Deputies shut down the Caloosahatchee Bridge early Tuesday after they found a naked man walking southbound on the bridge claiming there was a bomb inside his car.

The bridge is now open.

Around 4:30 a.m., the Lee County Sheriff's Office received a call about a suspicious person.

A white, male subject was described as not wearing clothes and waving his hands with raised arms as he walked along the middle of the Caloosahatchee River bridge south of Yankee Beach in North Fort Myers, NBC-2 reports.